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There is a growing number of airports around New York including Long Island, Westchester County and New Jersey, but few are able to name the first airport in New York City. Fewer still are able to explain why it no longer exists. This airport is Floyd Bennett Field, and he has three historical phases.

Tracing its origins to Lindbergh's historic solo flight from New York to Paris, he had alerted the world to the fact that the aircraft had not departed New York at all, but Long Island instead, and that the only real "New York" from the airport had been located in the state line in New Jersey. indicating the need for a dedicated airport, located in New York, municipal, had led to the creation of a group led by the famous aviator Clarence Chamberlain D. looking for an appropriate site.

The site chosen by following a 387-acre marsh on Barren Island in southern Brooklyn, New York, had housed a small community, a horse rendering plant, and the appropriately-named, only the dirt from the Track Barren Island Airport, which had been owned by Paul Rizzo and had been used for regular passenger flights tourist. The site, which is 33 small islands, has had favorable winds, missed approach obstruction was essentially anti-fog, and offered large tracts for future growth. The airport, which is a condition for the bridge to the leading edge of what had been considered one of the largest cities in the world, was named "Floyd Bennett Field" after the Brooklyn resident and the aviator Marine who had served as driver of Richard E. Byrd on his historic North Pole flight in 1926. Both have received the Medal of Honor from Congress for the feat.

Construction by the Department of City Docks, coincidentally took place October 29, 1929, the same day as the stock market crashed and caused the connection of these islands by filling their channels interspersed with six million cubic feet of sand pumped from the bottom of Jamaica Bay and raise its resultant elevation of 16 feet above tide water, connecting it to Long Island.

Runway 15/33, covering 3,100 feet, and Runway 24/06, 4,000 meters, had been the first airport construction projects, topographical, with one lane of traffic. During the two years between 1929 and 1931, four pairs of sheds had also risen from the former marshes within 120 by 140 feet, the buildings frame steel mesh feature, vaults , slabs of concrete and wooden bridges, and was supported by 45 foot long precast concrete piles.

A neo-Georgian style, brick red and black, two-story Administration Building, completed in 1931, was sandwiched between the now extended the airport accessible Flatbush Avenue and the tracks, and characterized by a semi- octagonal, three-storey projection checkpoint glass and steel on top of it. The building also served as the passenger terminal.

Floyd Bennett Field, which had received the three-letter code of the IATA "NOP", was dedicated June 26, 1930 in the midst of an armada of flying 600 U.S. Army Air Corps aircraft led by Charles Lindbergh and Jimmy Doolittle and attended by a crowd 25,000-strong. The airport, which officially opened a year later, May 23, 1931, received the U.S. Department of Commerce A-1-A credit rating, its highest level, because of its high-tech facility that far: his modern terminal, open slopes, and their lighting systems for nighttime operations.

These facilities, which attracts a growing number of famous "Golden Age" such as pilot Wiley Post Jacqueline Cochran, Roscoe Turner, Amelia Earhart, Howard Hughes and Clarence Chamberlain, allowed them to begin or end at a record pace and flight distance here because of its strategic objectives, location and cost is long runways, which allowed fu high.